I found this fungi growing on a downed Acer macrophyllum under a mostly open canopy.
Unfortunately, I did not photograph it before I dehydrated it.
Lloydia serotina Liliaceae
common alplily
Growing between Welch Peak and Mount Townsend
about 1700 meters (5700 feet)
Buckhorn Wildereness, Olympic National Forest
Washington, USA
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Smelowskia calycina
Brassicaceae
Growing between Welch Peak and Mount Townsend
about 1700 meters (5700 feet)
Buckhorn Wildereness, Olympic National Forest
Washington, USA
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Viola flettii Piper Violaceae
Flett's violet, Olympic violet
Growing between Welch Peak and Mount Townsend
about 1700 meters (5700 feet)
Buckhorn Wildereness, Olympic National Forest
Washington, USA
Seen on a North American Rock Garden Society (NARGS) Northwest Chapter field trip
This violet is endemic to the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA
It likes to grow in rock crevices.
Sone interesting information about Flett was researched by Roger Beckett in the Olympic Mountain Rescue Newsletter of July, 2004. He writes:
“Viola flettii was named by Piper in 1898 "in honour of Mr. J. B. Flett, an able botanist of the Northwest, who was the first to collect it." Flett collected that first specimen in July 1897 from near the timberline near Mount Constance, in the Olympic Mountains.The info comes from Viola Brainerd Baird's book "Wild Violets of North America", 1942.”
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Viola flettii Piper Violaceae
Flett's violet, Olympic violet
Growing between Welch Peak and Mount Townsend
about 1700 meters (5700 feet)
Buckhorn Wildereness, Olympic National Forest
Washington, USA
Seen on a North American Rock Garden Society (NARGS) Northwest Chapter field trip
This violet is endemic to the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA
It likes to grow in rock crevices.
Sone interesting information about Flett was researched by Roger Beckett in the Olympic Mountain Rescue Newsletter of July, 2004. He writes:
“Viola flettii was named by Piper in 1898 "in honour of Mr. J. B. Flett, an able botanist of the Northwest, who was the first to collect it." Flett collected that first specimen in July 1897 from near the timberline near Mount Constance, in the Olympic Mountains.The info comes from Viola Brainerd Baird's book "Wild Violets of North America", 1942.”
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I only find this stuff in close proximinty to old growth. I never find it in the cites.
I've never seen this much of this on one tree before. There were several large clumps of this. I could not see if it went all the way around the tree because the tree was growing on a cliff.
This moss is distinctive because it curls up when it is dry.
It grows so much better in the Olympics than it does near the city.
Growing on soil over a rock in a wet ditch. This moss is flood tolerant.
Wow so much of this in one spot. Every side of this big leaf maple tree had a different kind of moss on it. No moss does not just grow on the north side of trees.. but different moss grows on each side.
Covered with Nekera moss growing along the Dosewallips river in spring.
Growing on a second growth Douglas-fir in the shade of big leaf maple trees. My friend says these are Hypnum spp.
No costa makes this Neckera douglassii and not Metaneckera m.
It fell on the ground. I think these mostly only grow up high on trees and I only seem to find them on the ground.
I can't believe I forgot what these things are already. It has pits on the ventral surface of the thallus. It is not a lobaria, it just looks like one.
I think this is some sort of stonecrop but what species? This grows on the side of a dry cliff with some mosses that thrive in dry places.
I think this is a deer skull. It was in the middle of the road, the lower jaw was missing. There was still a tiny bit of flesh or rot on the skull.
It has the teeth of an herbivore.
The cyanobacteria on this peltigera have escaped and have started to colonize all over the top of parts of the lichen thallus.
The black dots are cyano bactereri that are in their staying in their place. The brown patches are where they escaped.
A pure yellow one on the side of the closed road to the Dosewallips Ranger Station. The weather was mixed sun and shade.
I guess this is the right species because the buds smell so nice.
growing on the side of a closed road to the Dosewallips Ranger Station.
A baby tree growing on the closed road to the Dosewallips Ranger Station.
A baby Douglas-fir tree growing on the closed road to the Dosewallips Ranger Station.
A bush or very small tree with flowers that at first looked like salmon berry but are too open for this early in the year. And this is a shrub, not a cane.
Growing at the side of a closed road that I hope NEVER re-opens. In a moist ditch if I recall correctly.
I thought that Letharia only grew East of the Cascades but I found it today on the Dosewallips river road. It was in an area that was burned about 4-5 years ago. It was on a dead Douglas-fir. There was a tall somewhat overhanging cliff nearby that might keep the area dry?
The biggest and most healthy I have ever seen. These are two plants.. the first is showing it's male reproductive parts, the second is showing it's huge female reproductive parts.
This was next to a ditch with a creek running through it on a closed logging road.
This lichen really caught my eye. It is jet black when wet and dingy gray when dry. I took it home to study and it now lives in my back yard.
